Dead horse and all given the time that's passed, but no, I'm not confusing the iPhone 3G with the iPhone 3GS. You are confusing multiple iPhone 3Gs with a single iPhone 3GS. As you said in the case of the latter, the "S" is for "Speed". In the case of the former, the "s" denotes plural.:)
It is common knowledge where I live that certain municipalities stop drivers at checkpoints, and then will not release them until they have found some reason to give them a ticket.
Exactly. Calling them DUI checkpoints pulls the right emotional strings to keep most people from being enraged at the prospect of getting stopped en masse without cause. The reality is that these are not DUI checkpoints but checkpoints in a more general and unsavory sense. Else, they would wave you through if you don't wreak of alcohol and aren't obviously under the influence. Instead, they write dozens or hundreds of tickets for things like seatbelt violations, lack of insurance, expired licenses, expired tags, etc. Never have I had an officer at a checkpoint even ask that I look him in the face, much less do anything to evaluate my possible level of impairment. So long as you're wearing your seatbelt, have a current license, have proof of insurance, and your vehicle registration is up to date, they don't seem too concerned with determining whether or not you've been drinking. I'm sure they take notice of people who are sloppy drunk, but those are the people they could spot and pull over individually anyway.
Which phones out there get vendor supplied updates after 3 years?
Does it matter? Do we judge fairness by the lowest common denominator? The fact is that Apple was still happily signing people up for two year contacts with AT&T on brand freaking new iPhone 3Gs until last June. Now, it's ok that people who are contractually obligated to pay for service for the next 14+ months be left vulnerable to attack? This, just because Apple first started selling the device in '08 and other manufacturers have track records of treating their customers like crap? It may be a three year old phone to the guys currently playing with iPhone 5 or 6 prototypes under black curtains, but to some, it's well under a year old. Maybe these people shouldn't expect multitasking, (no way on that hardware) wallpapers, or the other various cool new iOS 4 features, but they sure as hell ought to be able to surf the web without their devices being compromised.
It's certainly your responsibility to never try that password. I left an IT job at a financial institution rather abruptly a couple of years ago after a blow-up with my boss over whether I was responsible for failures in a process that she'd explicitly delegated to another group. (Just the last in a long line of ex post facto policy and procedure changes) Anyway, I never had reason to try (nor would I, given the legal and moral aspects), but for a while I suspected they'd probably disabled my accounts but missed things like router passwords, voicemail passwords, etc. that were either too obscure or too difficult to change. Later, I spoke to a former coworker and found out that they spent untold sums of money on security audits and consulting after I left. Turns out, the best way to secure an organization is to talk doom and gloom, "nothing can save us" security for a while and then leave pissed-off and shouting. As you might expect, once all those unfamiliar hands got into the shop, uptime went to crap. (Not good when you're dealing with other people's money) So, while I did nothing and probably didn't have any access anyway, the results for them were much the same - large cleanup bill and lost customer confidence. A moral of the story might be that while documentation, procedure, and security are all vital parts of IT, they can't substitute for a good management relationship with a competent, loyal staff. This is particularly true for organizations with IT shops on the smaller side of the staffing scale.
Far better than the AT&T bait and switch with iPad plans... remember that? Changed before the device was even available for a full month. Still, this is the fairest cap I've seen a wireless provider implement so far. Throttling users at their limit actually makes much more sense than cutting them off cold. Unless you are one of the people who thought cellular service would be able to truly replace landline service, (having no concept of the very finite bandwidth available via RF) 5GB is a lot of data....and if you run into it by accident, you can still use your service for less bandwidth-intensive things like email, light web access, or reloading your Virgin Mobile account.
I changed my mind... I don't even think it's a functioning unit of any kind now. The screen is printed, not unlike a display model cell phone. Plenty of discrepancies in the graphics, including lack of proper shading and the use of iPhone-only app icons (calculator & weather) point to it being a quick photoshop.
It's a nice-looking iPad 2 style case for a first generation iPad. It's well-known that Apple only provides dimensions to case manufacturers in advance of product launches. At best, this is a manufacturer's attempt to visualize what they'll be working with but it's really nothing more than a first generation iPad in a one-off shell.
Fortunately, I had the Epyx Fast Load cartridge as a semi-permanent part of my C64 setup so my "assembly" was done using its debugger to hand-key opcodes in hex. I probably never broke a few K in code but I did write a terminal emulator that would keep up with a 2400 baud (and probbaly faster) modem. To this day, I judge technical manuals by the Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide. It was like the O'reilly In a Nutshell book of its day... Easy to understand and to the point with no word count fluff to derail your understanding.
This isn't dissimilar to what I did to the Apple II machines in my 7th grade math and computer classes. (The math room doubled as the "computer room") I loaded all the machines up with a short program that would perform a countdown to get it a few minutes into the next period and then randomly produce a high-pitched beep every 60 to 600 seconds. If I recall correctly, the speaker was internal to the Apple II so the monitors stayed off. There were about sixteen machines in the room so you can imagine the results.
I think it's a little longer than that: the BASIC on the HP3000 had structured programming (and other modern features), in the 1970s.
If a tree falls in the woods.... Seriously, are there any real first-person witnesses to a HP3000 with BASIC actually installed? Granted, I came into the MPE game pretty late, but as I recall, getting BASIC running involved a trip to a far away land, climbing to the peak of a mountain to get tape reels blessed by monks, and forging disc platters in the fires of a volcano. I might be forgetting a step, but I remember it wasn't on the machines by default and getting it running wasn't something you'd care to do.
Re-read my statement and take special care to look for the words "most" and "among".:) That said, I still think it's a fair statement, even when comparing the 64 to the Apple II. Sure, you could replace most of the Apple's components with plug-in parts that mapped over the originals' memory space and have a sweet system... but how many of the Apple IIs in use had a 80 column card, sound card, RAM expansion, etc? I'd bet that of all sold by 1982, (the 64's release) the percentage of machines with any ONE of those expansion cards was in the single digits. If it makes you feel any better, I gave up my C64 long ago and made the switch to Apple!
I suspect that you had no first-hand experience with the 64, or that you experience was well after its heyday. When introduced, the 64 was more capable than most of its competitors and lower-priced as well. Remember, we are talking about a machine that occupied store shelves unchanged (save for cosmetic and cost reductions) for over a decade. By the time home users of any machine were considering hard drives, the C64's day was long-since over. At launch, its graphics were among the top available and its sound capabilities blew absolutely everything in the consumer market out of the water. Yes, the serial disk interface was slow even by 1982 standards, but only as an early example of a company opting for backwards compatibility over performance. The fast loader programs and cartridges didn't do some kind of magic, or fix a bug that Commodore let ship for 11 years; They simply rewrote the disk drive code to favor speed over compatibility with old PET systems.
There are many adequate replies to this already, but I'll go so far as to add that the entire electronic banking system is flawed, at least in the US. There is no careful management and validation of authorizations like most people want to imagine. A party interested in withdrawing money from your account needs only your account number and your bank's routing number to do so. Misuse of this is discouraged mostly by the difficulty of doing it anonymously... Which isn't so much of a concern to a corporation you've been allowing to dip into your account already. They'll merely say "it's legitimate" and the bank will tell you to deal with them. There are no protections like those afforded to credit card users. It's been well over a decade ago now, but I once left a job in a blow-up argument and was "unpaid" through reversal of a direct deposit that occurred days earlier. When I spoke to my bank manager, she basically told me "tough luck". Sure, I could have contacted a lawyer, etc, but the point isn't that I didn't have recourse; It's that the system is broken if anyone, at any time, can cause you rack-up a series of $30 NSF charges and keep you from paying your bills for days or weeks.
That is freakin' hilarious! See what he did there? He changed the original comment's entire meaning by altering only a few words... then he humorously passes it off as if he had done nothing more than correct a typo. Brilliant!
In fact, I've used it. Until last year I worked for a credit union and frequently described a scenario almost exactly like this to justify things like a least-privilege security model for end users. It's scary to consider what an attacker might be able to accomplish with a scheme like this. The article only touches the surface in pointing out that credit unions are typically smaller than banks and lack security resources. Mine was one of the largest and probably the most technologically progressive credit union in my state but I had a lot of interaction with smaller credit unions due to their cooperative, less competitive nature. (less competitive with each other, that is.) My experience is that most credit unions have IT departments that can be counted on one hand, and no security-oriented individuals on staff at all. (IT or otherwise) In fact, there are many credit unions whose ENTIRE staff can be counted on one hand. Not long before I left, we absorbed a failed credit union's assets and member base at the NCUA's request. This particular example's infrastructure consisted of three desktop computers and an Access database. Credit unions make great financial sense but only the largest ones have the kind of IT and security resources most of us associate with a bank.
The drug in the study is a beta blocker. They are used heavily to treat high blood pressure, heart rhythm issues, and specific aspects of heart failure. The study indicates that they MAY be useful in helping to dampen the negative feelings associated with traumatic memories when combined with specifically designed therapy. There's no claim that they can actually cause a memory to be forgotten. It's not a potential lifestyle drug poised for widespread abuse. Most links I've seen to this article and others covering the study seem to suggest that simply popping one of these pills will make you forget an entire event at will. It's nowhere near that simple. If it were, I'd be a lot more laid-back than I actually am.
Didn't that concern go away entirely with recent deregulation? Sure, it's still an issue with voice communications but not Internet... at least not now.
What if you could get the ballot box to yourself for a while and magically alter it in such a way that it would always give half of the second candidate's votes to the first candidate? What if you could do that even prior to the voting actually taking place? The box still appears to be empty (zero votes) when put into service, but through some mystic force, half of the ballots for candifate B become ballots for candidate A as they slip through the slot. That's the concern here, not the changing of votes already stored on the card.
Are you saying that there should be some additional layer of security such as a PIN number or password for this type of transaction? It still wouldn't stop the phishers... That's their game. They get their victims to give them all of the necessary information to conduct a transaction on their accounts... regardless of what that information is. Check out this lovely phishing site which I cannot seem to get removed even though I've contacted the company associated with the compromised server. Notice what information it asks for. Any sane person would immediately know this wasn't legit just by the volume of inormation it wants. However, there are enough people who'll still fall for it to make it worthwhile for the phishers. It's so crazy to fall for a scam this obvious that almost the only reasonable explanation is that the victims are being lax with the security of their information because they know the banks will pick up the tab.
Ummm... If you virtualize a dozen physical servers, you've probably saved enough money for redundant VMWare host hardware.
I've been working in IT for just under ten years now and I hate every vendor out there. They all suck and none of their products work worth a crap. I'm sick of wasting my time chasing bugs and applying endless patches as new issues surface. However, VMWare is the one shining light in my shop. It does exactly what they say it does and it does it flawlessly. Every feature is as you would expect and (ESX) host servers stay up for months at a time. Never have we had to reboot a host to solve a stability issue. It just freakin' works. After you've fought so many other products for years, seeing VMWare software in action is enough to make you cry.
I have a hard time swallowing that one... (Ewww!) Mold actually offers some benefit to the ecosystem and it tends to surface only once its meal has ceased to live. Patent holding companies, on the other hand, spring out of nowhere and gut fresh companies as soon as they start to turn a profit. Else, they lie in wait until other companies' products or services are ubiquitous and then demand huge percentages on years of sales. Sounds to me like pirates are a better comparison. Oh well, at least we can count on a decline in global warming.
"Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft acknowledged during his keynote address at the Microsoft launch event that the company needed to get more agile and to produce software faster, to the tune of delivering technology every 18 to 24 months."
No. No one wants such a short release cycle but you and your shareholders. If I may borrow one of your favorite words, there is not enough "innovation" in most of the technologies you purvey to justify an 18 month release cycle. You managed to pull it off for Windows XP and did nothing but piss off those of us who bought your line about Windows 2000. To us, it was clear that XP was nothing more than the finished version of Windows 2000. We had just spent a fortune on upgrading to the future only to be told 18 months later that we weren't worthy of free utilities, functionality upgrades, or even comprehensive service packs since we weren't on the latest release. As far as I'm concerned, you can keep your interim versions to yourself. Anything shorter than 3-4 years for operating systems and server products is lunacy.
I certainly hope this fails as I don't think legislation is the solution to wireless security... at least not in this form. Perhaps it should just be illegal to ship an access point that is open by default. I realize that manufacturers want their products to be easy to use but I don't think it's unreasonable for buyers to jump through a hoop or two before getting a completely open access point if that's what they want. On the other hand, maybe the FCC will get involved. Obviously, they have no jurisdiction over network design and such but any requirement to register an access point sounds a lot like a requirement to register a radio transmitter. It has been long since been established that local governments generally cannot regulate radio devices operating in accordance with the applicable FCC rules.
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Dead horse and all given the time that's passed, but no, I'm not confusing the iPhone 3G with the iPhone 3GS. You are confusing multiple iPhone 3Gs with a single iPhone 3GS. As you said in the case of the latter, the "S" is for "Speed". In the case of the former, the "s" denotes plural. :)
It is common knowledge where I live that certain municipalities stop drivers at checkpoints, and then will not release them until they have found some reason to give them a ticket.
Exactly. Calling them DUI checkpoints pulls the right emotional strings to keep most people from being enraged at the prospect of getting stopped en masse without cause. The reality is that these are not DUI checkpoints but checkpoints in a more general and unsavory sense. Else, they would wave you through if you don't wreak of alcohol and aren't obviously under the influence. Instead, they write dozens or hundreds of tickets for things like seatbelt violations, lack of insurance, expired licenses, expired tags, etc. Never have I had an officer at a checkpoint even ask that I look him in the face, much less do anything to evaluate my possible level of impairment. So long as you're wearing your seatbelt, have a current license, have proof of insurance, and your vehicle registration is up to date, they don't seem too concerned with determining whether or not you've been drinking. I'm sure they take notice of people who are sloppy drunk, but those are the people they could spot and pull over individually anyway.
Which phones out there get vendor supplied updates after 3 years?
Does it matter? Do we judge fairness by the lowest common denominator? The fact is that Apple was still happily signing people up for two year contacts with AT&T on brand freaking new iPhone 3Gs until last June. Now, it's ok that people who are contractually obligated to pay for service for the next 14+ months be left vulnerable to attack? This, just because Apple first started selling the device in '08 and other manufacturers have track records of treating their customers like crap? It may be a three year old phone to the guys currently playing with iPhone 5 or 6 prototypes under black curtains, but to some, it's well under a year old. Maybe these people shouldn't expect multitasking, (no way on that hardware) wallpapers, or the other various cool new iOS 4 features, but they sure as hell ought to be able to surf the web without their devices being compromised.
It's certainly your responsibility to never try that password. I left an IT job at a financial institution rather abruptly a couple of years ago after a blow-up with my boss over whether I was responsible for failures in a process that she'd explicitly delegated to another group. (Just the last in a long line of ex post facto policy and procedure changes) Anyway, I never had reason to try (nor would I, given the legal and moral aspects), but for a while I suspected they'd probably disabled my accounts but missed things like router passwords, voicemail passwords, etc. that were either too obscure or too difficult to change. Later, I spoke to a former coworker and found out that they spent untold sums of money on security audits and consulting after I left. Turns out, the best way to secure an organization is to talk doom and gloom, "nothing can save us" security for a while and then leave pissed-off and shouting.
As you might expect, once all those unfamiliar hands got into the shop, uptime went to crap. (Not good when you're dealing with other people's money) So, while I did nothing and probably didn't have any access anyway, the results for them were much the same - large cleanup bill and lost customer confidence. A moral of the story might be that while documentation, procedure, and security are all vital parts of IT, they can't substitute for a good management relationship with a competent, loyal staff. This is particularly true for organizations with IT shops on the smaller side of the staffing scale.
Far better than the AT&T bait and switch with iPad plans... remember that? Changed before the device was even available for a full month. Still, this is the fairest cap I've seen a wireless provider implement so far. Throttling users at their limit actually makes much more sense than cutting them off cold. Unless you are one of the people who thought cellular service would be able to truly replace landline service, (having no concept of the very finite bandwidth available via RF) 5GB is a lot of data. ...and if you run into it by accident, you can still use your service for less bandwidth-intensive things like email, light web access, or reloading your Virgin Mobile account.
I changed my mind... I don't even think it's a functioning unit of any kind now. The screen is printed, not unlike a display model cell phone. Plenty of discrepancies in the graphics, including lack of proper shading and the use of iPhone-only app icons (calculator & weather) point to it being a quick photoshop.
It's a nice-looking iPad 2 style case for a first generation iPad. It's well-known that Apple only provides dimensions to case manufacturers in advance of product launches. At best, this is a manufacturer's attempt to visualize what they'll be working with but it's really nothing more than a first generation iPad in a one-off shell.
Fortunately, I had the Epyx Fast Load cartridge as a semi-permanent part of my C64 setup so my "assembly" was done using its debugger to hand-key opcodes in hex. I probably never broke a few K in code but I did write a terminal emulator that would keep up with a 2400 baud (and probbaly faster) modem. To this day, I judge technical manuals by the Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide. It was like the O'reilly In a Nutshell book of its day... Easy to understand and to the point with no word count fluff to derail your understanding.
This isn't dissimilar to what I did to the Apple II machines in my 7th grade math and computer classes. (The math room doubled as the "computer room") I loaded all the machines up with a short program that would perform a countdown to get it a few minutes into the next period and then randomly produce a high-pitched beep every 60 to 600 seconds. If I recall correctly, the speaker was internal to the Apple II so the monitors stayed off. There were about sixteen machines in the room so you can imagine the results.
I think it's a little longer than that: the BASIC on the HP3000 had structured programming (and other modern features), in the 1970s.
If a tree falls in the woods.... Seriously, are there any real first-person witnesses to a HP3000 with BASIC actually installed? Granted, I came into the MPE game pretty late, but as I recall, getting BASIC running involved a trip to a far away land, climbing to the peak of a mountain to get tape reels blessed by monks, and forging disc platters in the fires of a volcano. I might be forgetting a step, but I remember it wasn't on the machines by default and getting it running wasn't something you'd care to do.
Apple has already perfected their method of remotely disabling phones. Don't believe me? Let iTunes upgrade your iPhone 3G to iOS4.
Re-read my statement and take special care to look for the words "most" and "among". :) That said, I still think it's a fair statement, even when comparing the 64 to the Apple II. Sure, you could replace most of the Apple's components with plug-in parts that mapped over the originals' memory space and have a sweet system... but how many of the Apple IIs in use had a 80 column card, sound card, RAM expansion, etc? I'd bet that of all sold by 1982, (the 64's release) the percentage of machines with any ONE of those expansion cards was in the single digits. If it makes you feel any better, I gave up my C64 long ago and made the switch to Apple!
I suspect that you had no first-hand experience with the 64, or that you experience was well after its heyday. When introduced, the 64 was more capable than most of its competitors and lower-priced as well. Remember, we are talking about a machine that occupied store shelves unchanged (save for cosmetic and cost reductions) for over a decade. By the time home users of any machine were considering hard drives, the C64's day was long-since over. At launch, its graphics were among the top available and its sound capabilities blew absolutely everything in the consumer market out of the water. Yes, the serial disk interface was slow even by 1982 standards, but only as an early example of a company opting for backwards compatibility over performance. The fast loader programs and cartridges didn't do some kind of magic, or fix a bug that Commodore let ship for 11 years; They simply rewrote the disk drive code to favor speed over compatibility with old PET systems.
There are many adequate replies to this already, but I'll go so far as to add that the entire electronic banking system is flawed, at least in the US. There is no careful management and validation of authorizations like most people want to imagine. A party interested in withdrawing money from your account needs only your account number and your bank's routing number to do so. Misuse of this is discouraged mostly by the difficulty of doing it anonymously... Which isn't so much of a concern to a corporation you've been allowing to dip into your account already. They'll merely say "it's legitimate" and the bank will tell you to deal with them. There are no protections like those afforded to credit card users. It's been well over a decade ago now, but I once left a job in a blow-up argument and was "unpaid" through reversal of a direct deposit that occurred days earlier. When I spoke to my bank manager, she basically told me "tough luck". Sure, I could have contacted a lawyer, etc, but the point isn't that I didn't have recourse; It's that the system is broken if anyone, at any time, can cause you rack-up a series of $30 NSF charges and keep you from paying your bills for days or weeks.
That is freakin' hilarious! See what he did there? He changed the original comment's entire meaning by altering only a few words... then he humorously passes it off as if he had done nothing more than correct a typo. Brilliant!
In fact, I've used it. Until last year I worked for a credit union and frequently described a scenario almost exactly like this to justify things like a least-privilege security model for end users. It's scary to consider what an attacker might be able to accomplish with a scheme like this. The article only touches the surface in pointing out that credit unions are typically smaller than banks and lack security resources. Mine was one of the largest and probably the most technologically progressive credit union in my state but I had a lot of interaction with smaller credit unions due to their cooperative, less competitive nature. (less competitive with each other, that is.) My experience is that most credit unions have IT departments that can be counted on one hand, and no security-oriented individuals on staff at all. (IT or otherwise) In fact, there are many credit unions whose ENTIRE staff can be counted on one hand. Not long before I left, we absorbed a failed credit union's assets and member base at the NCUA's request. This particular example's infrastructure consisted of three desktop computers and an Access database. Credit unions make great financial sense but only the largest ones have the kind of IT and security resources most of us associate with a bank.
Thank goodness! Like everyone, I've felt the crunch since the economy's been in the tank but I knew that eventually the jobs would return.
The drug in the study is a beta blocker. They are used heavily to treat high blood pressure, heart rhythm issues, and specific aspects of heart failure. The study indicates that they MAY be useful in helping to dampen the negative feelings associated with traumatic memories when combined with specifically designed therapy. There's no claim that they can actually cause a memory to be forgotten. It's not a potential lifestyle drug poised for widespread abuse. Most links I've seen to this article and others covering the study seem to suggest that simply popping one of these pills will make you forget an entire event at will. It's nowhere near that simple. If it were, I'd be a lot more laid-back than I actually am.
Didn't that concern go away entirely with recent deregulation? Sure, it's still an issue with voice communications but not Internet... at least not now.
What if you could get the ballot box to yourself for a while and magically alter it in such a way that it would always give half of the second candidate's votes to the first candidate? What if you could do that even prior to the voting actually taking place? The box still appears to be empty (zero votes) when put into service, but through some mystic force, half of the ballots for candifate B become ballots for candidate A as they slip through the slot. That's the concern here, not the changing of votes already stored on the card.
Are you saying that there should be some additional layer of security such as a PIN number or password for this type of transaction? It still wouldn't stop the phishers... That's their game. They get their victims to give them all of the necessary information to conduct a transaction on their accounts... regardless of what that information is. Check out this lovely phishing site which I cannot seem to get removed even though I've contacted the company associated with the compromised server. Notice what information it asks for. Any sane person would immediately know this wasn't legit just by the volume of inormation it wants. However, there are enough people who'll still fall for it to make it worthwhile for the phishers. It's so crazy to fall for a scam this obvious that almost the only reasonable explanation is that the victims are being lax with the security of their information because they know the banks will pick up the tab.
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Ummm... If you virtualize a dozen physical servers, you've probably saved enough money for redundant VMWare host hardware.
I've been working in IT for just under ten years now and I hate every vendor out there. They all suck and none of their products work worth a crap. I'm sick of wasting my time chasing bugs and applying endless patches as new issues surface. However, VMWare is the one shining light in my shop. It does exactly what they say it does and it does it flawlessly. Every feature is as you would expect and (ESX) host servers stay up for months at a time. Never have we had to reboot a host to solve a stability issue. It just freakin' works. After you've fought so many other products for years, seeing VMWare software in action is enough to make you cry.
I have a hard time swallowing that one... (Ewww!) Mold actually offers some benefit to the ecosystem and it tends to surface only once its meal has ceased to live. Patent holding companies, on the other hand, spring out of nowhere and gut fresh companies as soon as they start to turn a profit. Else, they lie in wait until other companies' products or services are ubiquitous and then demand huge percentages on years of sales. Sounds to me like pirates are a better comparison. Oh well, at least we can count on a decline in global warming.
"Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft acknowledged during his keynote address at the Microsoft launch event that the company needed to get more agile and to produce software faster, to the tune of delivering technology every 18 to 24 months."
No. No one wants such a short release cycle but you and your shareholders. If I may borrow one of your favorite words, there is not enough "innovation" in most of the technologies you purvey to justify an 18 month release cycle. You managed to pull it off for Windows XP and did nothing but piss off those of us who bought your line about Windows 2000. To us, it was clear that XP was nothing more than the finished version of Windows 2000. We had just spent a fortune on upgrading to the future only to be told 18 months later that we weren't worthy of free utilities, functionality upgrades, or even comprehensive service packs since we weren't on the latest release. As far as I'm concerned, you can keep your interim versions to yourself. Anything shorter than 3-4 years for operating systems and server products is lunacy.
I certainly hope this fails as I don't think legislation is the solution to wireless security... at least not in this form. Perhaps it should just be illegal to ship an access point that is open by default. I realize that manufacturers want their products to be easy to use but I don't think it's unreasonable for buyers to jump through a hoop or two before getting a completely open access point if that's what they want. On the other hand, maybe the FCC will get involved. Obviously, they have no jurisdiction over network design and such but any requirement to register an access point sounds a lot like a requirement to register a radio transmitter. It has been long since been established that local governments generally cannot regulate radio devices operating in accordance with the applicable FCC rules.